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Apple CEO Tim Cook tweeted this pic of himself on the Apple production line seeing how it's done. Those Apple iMacs in the background being used on the Apple production lines?

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They're running Windows.

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Cormorant fisherman in China...

Cool! The lantern is the only modern thing there, and even that is 50 year old technology.

Yeah very old tech, I think 50 is being generous to Coleman, taken on a cell phone.

I wondered as I wrote that. I have vague recollections that the mantels had some sort of radioactive ingredient to make then shine brighter, so I figured they weren't 100 years old.

Yeah but many a product was found to be dangerous long after they were put into common use. I think it's like the posh California hotels with a brass plaque saying there are chemicals inside that the state of CA says cause cancer. Pretty small risk, but don't give 'em to kids.

OK, you peaked my curiosity, had to look up the history. The first lamp was 1905, but the first one I saw with the types mantle we're familiar with was around 1950, so you were right. :thumb:

Yups.

Doncha just hate it. Your favorite fishing spot, ready for some serious fish catching, and somebody barges in. :(

I hate when that happens.

But what's with the huge amount off smoke coming off that VW Golf?

Looks like a still from a Roger Moore era James Bond movie. Has that cheesy feel to it, even if it's a modern Golf.

Dust. Gravel road leading to the ramp.

Montenegro, about 5:30 in.

I've just never seen a cat on an airplane wing before.

And, now I have.

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CATastrophe. :eek:

The office didn't fare well either. The monsoon leaked through the roof.
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Oh noes. :eek:

Waylon Jennings and a pair of authentic, vintage Willie Nelson pig-tails, which were a gift when Johnny Cash threw Waylon a sobriety party.

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They (the pig-tails) are part of 2,000 items owned by the late Waylon 'Watasha' Jennings that will be auctioned.

The pretty lady beside him is Jessie Colter, Watasha's wife from 1969 until his death in 2002.

I believe her name is Lisa.

No. Her song was. I'm not Lisa.

I know she's too good looking for His Bearded Leatheriness...

Paveway II...incoming.

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There goes the neighborhood.

I was hoping someone would get the joke. Not really a joke since it's not funny. Whatever it is, I'm glad you noticed, BB.

Well I was gonna say that's not lisa, her name is julie...but then.

My cousin's name is Julie. And you know my name. So we had fun with that song when we were kids. ;)

I felt ya.

All you people who had your names in the songs... you were the lucky ones.

When the DJ would come on and tell us that was Jessie Colter, I remember being almost angry about it. Shouldn't you have to sing "My name is Jessie"?? Jessie, Julie, it's not that far off, even. Wouldn't the song be even more interesting? Or would it? Would that make it even more weird in a weirder way?

I remember two cases where it caused people trouble. One was my landlord's daughter... Roxanne. :haha:

Did she, uh, 'put on the red light' (wink, wink, nudge, nudge)?

Well, the name of the song was "I'm Not Lisa", but, she could have narrowed it down some more...

She did, remember - the whole line was "I'm not Lisa, My name is Julie," but she was always lying.

Damn if she didn't.[/backfromyoutube]

[Julia] The addition of an acid will fluff up your whipped egg whites. It stabilizes the whites and adds volume. Add 1/8 teaspoon of acid ingredient (such as lemon juice, vinegar, or cream of tartar) per egg white, except for meringues, where 1/8 is used for two egg whites. The acid should be added to the whites just as they begin to become frothy during beating. [/Julia]

Wow. I've seen airplanes punch through clouds all the time, and the clouds just stay there. The plane has no impact on the clouds.

I've never seen an image where a plane shapes a cloud that much.

The effects of the wing tip vortices are conspicuous and I assume that the deep furrow in the cloud is caused by the contra rotating props.

I accept that the second part of that sentence is a rather large assumption, so I'll willingly stand corrected if necessary.

BTW Looks like a TU-95 Bear.

This is unexpectedly relevant to me, as I just bought a new cookie press thing for making meringue cookies that don't look all blobby and ridiculous coming out of a piping bag. I shall try adding lemon juice!

Seconded.

Perhaps that's not a cloud, but, a fogbank?

Seems to me that it whatever it is, the plane would have to be pushing that volume of air down to make the cloud/fog go down.

Also it appears that the plane has pulled up from closer to the cloud/fog...Am I looking at that right?

Also a strange shadow from the plane (?).

http://s28.postimg.org/v5rdq1m3h/Tu_95.jpg

Seems to be the next picture in the sequence.

More here: Tu 95

Cool pics.

For Infi The Hobo Killer:

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HAHAHAHAHAHAAAA! This chick who hated me years ago started a rumor I had herpes. Bitch. I don't. Have herpes that is. I am depressed and I do kill hobos, though...so thanks. ;)

I just passed that on to homesick girl at college.

Herpes. Likely NSFW.

Definitely NSFW is all of OJST (Oh Joy, Sex Toy). New readers should start here. I've read all the comics, they're grrrrreat!

That herpes link up there in V's post should work more like this herpes link (to the same place).

;)

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Thanks Grav.

Sorry I didn't proofread that post. I'm glad you did and that you corrected my error.

No, I don't know either.
 

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A six storey tall Rubber Duck by Florentijn Hofman, a Dutch artist, leads a procession into Los Angeles harbour.

Could just as easily have been posted in Weird News or WTF, but it's ended up here as you can see.

Carruthers retires to ponder over this, the meaning of life and sundry other matters.

Bad time to own stock in Malaysian Airlines

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Why dogs don't play poker.

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Good time to buy, though.;)
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I never knew one used one's toes so much performing a headstand...

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I realize the world population is exploding, plus a lot of our former serfs have acquired buying power. The result is the competition for beach front property has become stiff, and the prices stiffer.

That said... No... N.O... No way Spanish Joe... absolutely not. :headshake

You want beach front property? Walk this way sir. It's yours for a mere £500,000 ($810,000)

http://s27.postimg.org/hvf0ckpgj/No_1_The_Thames.jpg

So, it needs a little renovation. Nothing that a few weekends and a visit to your local DIY store won't put right.

It's had a battering from a tidal estuary for the last century-and-a-half and it was an anchor point for anti-submarine steel netting during the last Anglo-German unpleasantness but it will probably last another century or two.

No 1 The Thames

Google Maps

BBC Link with video